@nerys   I’d missed the `Doctor Who’ in the coding. @DoctorDoctorWho spotted that; excellent catch!

Isn’t the big take away from this episode that, for once, the Doctor lost? As noted by @jimmyp he didn’t just win and then leave behind issues or a mess (a big theme this series), but he lost.

Still pondering (among other things): How, exactly,…[Read more]

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Liked that one a lot; scary and ambitious. Echoes of Gattiss’s Cold War in terms of the very tightly confined action, but thought the sandmen were far more creepy and menacing and embedded in a much more complex story than the ice warrior who was loose on the submarine. With an episode title from Macbeth, there were also I thought echoes of Forbidd…[Read more]

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Great stuff! I thought that was the episode of the season by a long way and suspect that in five years time we’ll look back on Inversion of the Zygons  as a classic. Jenna Coleman was terrific as Bonnie and I agree with everyone about the stunning power of Capaldi’s performance. In the scene in the Black Archive he soared. The Doctor spends so…[Read more]

While rooting around for more pictures of the Osgood Box, I came across a story in the Radio Times about an internet posting by SM in 1995. Maybe the message here is, hang on to your bonkers theories, you never know when you might be able to use them!! I’ve put the full link to the story below.

Well, it turns out that back in 1995 a young…[Read more]

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@lisa  Thanks for the tip on the picture of the box! I just posted something on this image in BBC Approved Spoilers.

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@lisa @blenkinsopthebrave  @purofilion   and fellow box theorists, I wondered if the Osgood Box was anything like a match to the box in The Day of the Doctor, but it seems not, though it’s hard to be sure. The box that was on the table in front of the Osgoods at the start of The Zygon Invasion does look a bit larger. Or is it simply the camera a…[Read more]

@lisa “So do we have anyone that wants to make a prediction about the Tardis blue Osgood Box?”

So here’s my theory from an earlier posting.

3) What’s in the Osgood Box?? Nothing. The box was left by the Doctor simply as a `security blanket’ for Unit and its political masters so they’d feel better about the Peace Treaty. The Doctor really wante…[Read more]

On a second viewing, I was struck by the continuities between the end of The Woman Who Lived and The Zygon Invasion. In the final exchange between Ashildr/Lady Me and the Doctor we get The Doctor: Who told you about me? “The man who comes for the battle, and runs away from the fallout”?’ Then near the start of <em>The Zygon Invasion</em>, Kate…[Read more]

Really enjoyed reading the posts; lots of interesting stuff!

The current state of my bonkers theorizing for what it’s worth, which is likely in the long run to be very little…

1) @ichabod    Yes, 127 missed calls is a lot! And this from Clara who is now desperate to go on adventures in the Tardis. Even taking the Year 7s to Tae Kwon Do su…[Read more]

Something of an epic feel to that episode and again it’s one that again calls for much bonkers theorising. But a few quick first impressions and a question…

What’s Clara up to? Why (before she was put into the pod to free the field for Zygon Clara) did she miss 100 plus calls from the Doctor?? That looks like a big-time brush-off. And…[Read more]

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One final thought on the anachronisms in this episode: at the same time that we got the cocktail and the 2008 Gladwell theory on 10,000 hours to master a skill, the writer was careful to get other facts correct. Ashildr/Lady me tells the Doctor, for example, that the life expectancy in England in 1651 is 35. A quick internet…[Read more]